Static Quotes

214 quotes by 192 authors

The denial of "self" challenges only the notion of a static self independent of body and mind-not the ordinary sense of ourself as a person… — Stephen Batchelor
You want to know the biggest illusion about success? That it's like a pinnacle to be climbed, a thing to be possessed, or a static… — Tony Robbins
I was content in my universe and didn't want to change it at all, even though I was being propelled in that direction. — Paulo Coelho
Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified. — Alan Watts
Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world. — James Fallows
ClichÃ©s are static, the emotion behind them long spent. If you are tempted to use them, here is a saying of my motherâ€™s: Fang pi… — Amy Tan
Democracy is not a static thing. It is an everlasting march. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one. — Kenneth Tynan
The convenience of timekeeping is greatly overrated; and the people who practice it so faithfully that they lose the capacity for appreciating the fixed and… — Lewis Mumford
Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process. — Jean Piaget
I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well… — A. A. Gill
Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it is… — Meghan O'Rourke
It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which… — Stephen Bayley
In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from. — Anne Enright
Ran out of bullets and still had static, grabbed a pregnant lady and out the automatic. Pointed at her head and said the gun was… — Slick Rick
Individuals inherit a particular space within an interlocking set of social relationships; lacking that space, they are nobody, or at best a stranger or an… — Alasdair MacIntyre
All science is static in the sense that it describes the unchanging aspects of things. — Frank Knight
Thinking in terms of two realms understands the paired concepts worldy-Christia n, natural-superna tural, profane-sacred, rational-revela tions, as ultimate static opposites...and fails to recognize the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We are living in a world where access trumps knowledge every time. Those who know how to search, find and make the connections will succeed.… — Charles Jennings
Intuition is a heart message minus the static. — Sue Thoele

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